Verbeke Wingene Quotes & Sayings

Her chatter had set her free from a long week of loneliness, of doing what she was told and saying nothing. She was all cheered up. — Hermann Hesse

It is obvious that he has set himself an impossible task; slow and gradual transformations are possible, they even happen quite frequently, but they do not lead us to a new life; they only take us from one old life to another old life. The new life always makes itself known abruptly, without any approach or preparation, and it keeps its strange enigmatical character in the midst of events whose course has been determined by the old laws. — Lev Shestov

Nobody really wants to be your friend when they discover that you work with dead people. — Rebecca McNutt

When they arrived at Parva Magna, everyone agreed that it was quite a good thing that
the newly married couple had managed to find shelter in the storm, although there was some
confusion as to why it had taken them a full three days to make their way fifteen miles. — Lauren Willig

The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. — Truman Capote

All great works of art are trophies of victorious struggle. — Julius Meier-Graefe

Let's do something cheerful
all your designs are about captivity, it depresses me.
Geryon watched the top of Herakles' head
and felt his limits returning. Nothing to say. He looked at this fact
in mild surprise. Once in childhood
his ice cream had been eaten by a dog. Just an empty con
in a small dramatic red fist.
Herakles stood up. No? Let's go then. On the way home they tried "Joy To The World"
but were too tired. It seemed a long drive. — Anne Carson

We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little. — Anne Lamott

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call. — Roger Zelazny

All numbers in logic must be capable of justification. Or rather it must become plain that there are no numbers in logic. There are no pre-eminent numbers. — Ludwig Wittgenstein